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DALLAS, — Luka Doncic thought his improbable tying basket in the final second of regulation actually won the game.

https://tsportsday.com/2022/12/28/sports-news/doncic-has-60-21-10-rallie/

The Turkish chef has been pre-emptively banned the festival for his behaviour

The chef known as Salt Bae has been banned from a music festival following his controversial drama at the Qatar World Cup.

https://tsportsday.com/2022/12/27/sports-news/salt-bae-banned-from-fest/

Quarterback DJ Uiagalelei is transferring from Clemson to Oregon State, he announced on social media.

https://tsportsday.com/2022/12/25/sports-news/ex-clemson-qb-uiagalelei/

MINNEAPOLIS — Greg Joseph kicked a career-long 61-yard field goal as time expired, giving the Minnesota Vikings a 27-24 victory that prevented the New York Giants from clinching a playoff spot on Saturday.

https://tsportsday.com/2022/12/24/sports-news/vikings-edge-giants-27-24/

https://archive.ph/KQnPE

A microcosm of the eternal joke that is women’s “sport”. An investigation followed by a 128 page report because supposedly professional athletes were told not to be lard arses. Further complaints about efforts to control their diets and exercise regimes, something experienced by anybody who has even played sport as an amateur if it’s been to even a half decent level.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/14/jeremiah-johnson-12-year-old-football-player-with-tattoo-goes-viral/

If I’m the parents of the other kids in the league, I’m protesting and my kid got hurt playing against this fucking scammer of a lummox, I’m finding him and beating the shit out of him.

DOHA, Qatar — The opening match of the World Cup was only hours away when the leaders of a group of European soccer federations arrived for a meeting at the luxury Fairmont Hotel. The five-star property, converted into the tournament headquarters for FIFA leadership, was an unlikely setting for a fight. But with the matches about to begin, it would have to do.

https://tnewsline.com/2022/12/17/sports/how-fifa-silenced-a-world-cup/

https://youtu.be/h_UaUuBxVkE

…and he was repaid for his efforts by him and his family being victimized on several occasions by the fucking animals in that community. Also, the niggers in the school administration cheated him out of agreed-upon revenue for gate tickets exceeding 30K fans in the stadium. Then, when he left for Colorado, all of the rotten fucking niggers tried to demonize him instead of thanking him for all he did for the school and the kids.

For Antoine Griezmann, the first few months of this season drifted uncomfortably close to indignity. His status at Atlético Madrid, it seemed, had diminished to the extent that he was a mere curiosity, one of the most celebrated forwards of his era reduced to something between a meme and a punchline.

The problem was not, really, of his own making. A few years ago, Griezmann had left Atlético — the team that had helped to make him a star — for Barcelona. The move, announced in a glossy, LeBron James-style documentary that did little to endear him to anyone, did not work out.

The Barcelona he had joined was creaking and fading, the dull rumble of thunder gathering in the distance. Griezmann played well only in flashes and flurries, not the sort of return expected — or needed, given the club’s increasing desperation — for his eye-watering cost. Last year, he was permitted to return on loan to Atlético, his purgatory in Catalonia at an end.

The complications, though, did not end. His loan deal ran for two seasons. If he played a certain number of minutes in the second campaign, Atlético would be compelled to pay Barcelona a set fee to retain him permanently. Unwilling to commit and hopeful of reducing the price, Atlético sought to find a loophole.

Diego Simeone, the club’s manager, started introducing Griezmann only as a second-half substitute. He played 30 minutes here, 20 minutes there. Atlético never confirmed the rationale, but that Griezmann was being held back as a negotiating technique seemed apparent.

That particular issue was, thankfully, sorted out before the World Cup. But the damage — at least to Griezmann’s reputation — had been done. Barcelona did not want Griezmann. Atlético did, but only on the cheap. He was no longer the impish, inventive forward who had been regarded as one of the finest players in the world only a few years earlier. Now, he was an afterthought.

And then came Qatar. Griezmann is not the most celebrated member of France’s attacking line — that title would go to Kylian Mbappé — and he is not the most prolific, thanks to the evergreen Olivier Giroud. He may not have the world at his feet, like Aurélien Tchouámeni. But there is a compelling case to be made that Griezmann is the most important member of Didier Deschamps’s squad.

Griezmann may not be France’s star, but he is certainly its brain. It is Griezmann who provides imagination, and guile, and craft. That is what has always appealed to Deschamps about him, what has helped him accrue 72 consecutive appearances for his nation over the past six years.

At this World Cup, though, it is another trait that has made Griezmann invaluable. After injuries to Paul Pogba, N’Golo Kanté and Karim Benzema, Deschamps had to construct a new approach for the French on the fly. He had to recalibrate his midfield and adjust the positioning of his attack. Griezmann is the one who makes it all work. He has the intuition to alter how he plays, and where he plays, to keep things running smoothly, and the versatility to make sure he thrives wherever he is required.

Griezmann has always had that gift, of course. He has, at various stages in his career, played on both wings, as a lone striker, and as a central, creative force. At club level, it is possible — even likely — that his versatility has held him back. Europe’s major teams now play in high-definition systems, ones in which the specialists required for every role are recruited at vast cost. That Griezmann is not quite so easily pigeonholed might, in some lights, look like a drawback.